tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post114243323300216528..comments2023-10-24T08:33:10.354-04:00Comments on Reformed Leftist (& Friends): Fire the wonton professors: PC past and presentPaul Huehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-1142535979792850872006-03-16T14:06:00.000-05:002006-03-16T14:06:00.000-05:00Tom: Yes, I advocate affirmative action to get mar...Tom: Yes, I advocate affirmative action to get marxists into economics departments, and neocons into history departments. I have read about conservative faculty candidates who have either been denied opportunities, or who believe that they have to keep their traps shut. But I don't have ready references for these claims. Thomas Sowell documents some in some of his books.Paul Huehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-1142466666687038252006-03-15T18:51:00.000-05:002006-03-15T18:51:00.000-05:00So what do you want--affirmative action? Hire toke...So what do you want--affirmative action? Hire token conservatives? Where are the hoards of right wingers who want to make the long march through the humanities academy--and are being denied? Are not careers on Wall Street and the law snapping up the best conservative minds? And why are there no Marxists in economics departments--or Freudians in psychology? Shall I launch a Horowitz-like crusade Tom Philpotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12628086253733653673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-1142444014452743562006-03-15T12:33:00.000-05:002006-03-15T12:33:00.000-05:00Tom: That's the best evidence that you can come up...Tom: That's the best evidence that you can come up with for an effort to fire US professors for holding leftist views? For one thing, as we know, whereas US voters split about evenly between the demo and repo party, in the humanity fields professors vote about 90% demo. That's some fight that Horowitz is supposedly raging! <BR/><BR/>What Horowitz wants is the hummanity programs to start hiring Paul Huehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-1142439751849642652006-03-15T11:22:00.000-05:002006-03-15T11:22:00.000-05:00"One Noam Chomsky is one too many. Angst besets th..."One Noam Chomsky is one too many. Angst besets the triumphant conservatives. Those who purge Darwin from America's schools must yell in order to drown out their own misgivings, the inchoate realization that they are barking at the moon."Tom Philpotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12628086253733653673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-1142437370826161322006-03-15T10:42:00.000-05:002006-03-15T10:42:00.000-05:00"David Horowitz, as the Jacoby article shows, woul..."David Horowitz, as the Jacoby article shows, would like to sanitize the universities."<BR/><BR/>That is absolute bullsh*t Tom and you know it. No one, Horowitz included, wants colleges and universities "sanitized", they simply want some balance in how students are being taught, and want them "taught" and not "indoctrinated". They want both sides presented objectively, in a non-partisan way. sixstringslingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04883672727004721067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-1142435775048096962006-03-15T10:16:00.000-05:002006-03-15T10:16:00.000-05:00David Horowitz, as the Jacoby article shows, would...David Horowitz, as the Jacoby article shows, would like to sanitize the universities.Tom Philpotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12628086253733653673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-1142435188164703212006-03-15T10:06:00.001-05:002006-03-15T10:06:00.001-05:00Tom: How many times are you going to defend social...Tom: How many times are you going to defend socialist, blame-the-US-for-everything professors from getting fired, when NOBODY IS TRYING TO FIRE THEM? The best you can do is ressurrect young Bill Buckley's 30-year-old book? Why not fight a real effort, such as the failed efffort to fire Ward Churchill? Oh, I forgot: I've already posted numerous times defending that guy.Paul Huehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01276182482853030605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16691733.post-1142435170601419432006-03-15T10:06:00.000-05:002006-03-15T10:06:00.000-05:00Here's more of the Jacoby article:Today the situat...Here's more of the Jacoby article:<BR/><BR/>Today the situation is different. The fear during the cold war, however trumped up, that professors served America's enemies could claim a patina of plausibility insofar as some teachers identified themselves as communists or socialists. With communism dead, leftism moribund and liberalism wounded, the fear of international subversion no longer Tom Philpotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12628086253733653673noreply@blogger.com